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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-20

MINERAL WATERS and GINGER ALE-Wc
w will from this date supply the family trade
with 81. 8LER'S MINERAL WATERS. Leave
your orders ct our store.
apf1 GEO. McBURNEY g. SON.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-20

FoR EXCURSIONS AND PICNICs-Potted
L Ham, Tongue, Chicken, Turkey, Duck, Game,
Sardines, Pickles. Clipped Beef, Lobster, Salmon.
Whole Lambs Tongues, Sauces and full line of
Crackers and Fancy Cakes at
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Care of Lamps.

1t is best to clean lamps the first thing
in the morning after the dishes are out OF
the way. The scissors for trimming the
wicks should be very sharp and had bet
ter be kept for this purpose alone. Lift
up the cap and cut off the wick close to
the fiat tube through which it passes; it
will then be sure to be straight. Then
turn it ups little and trim off the cor.
ners slightly, so that it will not flare up
on each side OF the flame. Once in a
while wash out the bowel ct the lamp to
clear it Of all sediment that may cling to
the bottom. After washing the chimney
in warm soapsuds rinse it in clear water,
otherwise, it is claimed, it will be more
apt to break. The chimney should be
allowed to heat gradually before turning
the flame up very high.
Cloths which arc used to wipe oil from
lamps should be burned. Do not put
them away thinking to use them again.
They are generally kept in close place,
and in such case are generally in dan.
ger of firing the house. Some of the
mysterious fires, the cause of which no
one knows, might be traced to this very
practice.
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Is Rye Exhaustive?

An agricultural authority says:
Many farmers believe that rye is much
more exhaustive than wheat. 1t can be
and usually is grown on poorer soil than
the latter crop; and not only in manur-
Ing, but in preparation of the land, it is
apt therefore to be neglected. Rye has
. greater bulk OF straw than wheat; but
this bulk is chiefly carbon and derived
from the air. The broad leaves of rye
cover the surface better than the wheat
plant does, and this protection possibly
serves some of the purposes of manuring.
Where rye is grown in succession it takes
Q long time to run down good soil; but
once change to wheat and single crop
will make another crop impossible with
out manure or course of seeding with
grass and clover. Although its leaf is
bulky, the rye crop is gotten off one or
two weeks earlier than wheat can be,
thus relieving the grass and clover seed
ing of the double draught of roots on
the water supply in the soil. After any
grain is cut clover grows more rapidly
than before, and rye is always cut earlier
than any other grain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-14
TntclIipnuf Dogs.

A dog belonging to the band at West
Point stations himself daily near the
cannon which is fired at sundown. At
the discharge he starts down hill to look
for the ball. This he has done with
great precision and regularity for many
years.
A Louisville pug chews gum, but only
in private. If a stranger enters the room
while he is chewing he will instantly
hide the gum. He is the constant COM
panion of company of girls who play
tennis, and picked up the habit from
them.
Dan is a mongrel belonging to 4. S.
Taylor, of Longview, Texas. He saw u
half-grown pointer pup belonging to one
of Mr.. Taylor's sons take ham from the
kitchen and carry it to the orchard. He
drove off the pup and lay beside the ham
until the cook came and took it, then
hunted up the pup and gave him thor
ough whipping.
George Balterham, of Asheville, N. c.,
took friend to choose pup from lit
ter belonging to his Newfoundland dog.
The mother looked up at her master as
the friend selected one to call for on the
morrow. The next morning she was
missing with the doomed pup, leaving
the others to care for themselves. At
night she was seen returning slyly, with
the animal in her mouth, and seemed
happy in having saved it.
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Insect Friends.

Prof. J. A. Lintner writes: It should
be generally known that not all insects
are injurious There are those that are
The farmers and fruit growers best allies,
though often occurring under circum-
stances so suspicious as to cost them
their lives. Of these are the numerous
species of lady birds" or ''lady bugs"
(Coccinellida) abounding often upon
sickly vegetation, infected with plant
lice, and only drawn there to feed upon
the destructive aphides. Nearly all of
the iehneumon flies are of great service
to the agriculturist, from the immense
number of caterpillars which they de-
stroy. Many of the true bugs prey upon
caterpillars and other injurious species.
A large proportion of the Lampyrida-
the family to which the "lightning bug"
Or "fre fly" belongs-fced on other in
sects in both their larval and perfect
stages. s.-Prairie Farmer.
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The Heart of Napoleon.

81 noticed" writes Mr.. J. II. Duncan,
from Kedmuir Hants, "a paragraph as to
Napoleon's heart quoted in your paper
two days ago, which believe is incor-
rect. My grandfather Or. Duncan, of
RuthwelD knew intimately one of the
doctors in attendance on Napoleon-a
DR.. Arnot-who was one of those en-.
gagged in the embalming Of the body. 1t
is quite true that the heart disappeared,
and great was the dismay of the doctors
to find the basin in which they had left
it quite empty and never trace of the
heart. At last trace of blood on the
floor led them to rats hole, where was
the object of their search, too big to get
through. The addition about lambs
hearts being substituted is evidently an
establishment of the enemy.-Pau AaH
Gazette,
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Making Motto Candies.

Great quantities of fruit, especially the
ounce, pear, apple and apricot, are con-
sumed in the manufacture of candy,
giving their flavor to the finished con-
fection. The manufacture of motto
candies ought to interest sentimental
people. The material of these tender
little billct-douy is made plastic by
means of gum-tragacanth, kneaded like
dough, and rolled out, as if for cookies,
with long rolling-pin The notices
are then stamped on by means Of cop,
per stamp dipped in cochineal dye, and
iozengcs cut out with cutter, square,
round or hcart-shaped. Sugar is con-
fessedly sweet. But sugar lozenge,
with one o. these notices on it, is
"swectcr than anything on earth" Many
schoolboy in the flush and fury of his
first young love, has laid his heart on,
one OF these lozenges, as on q platter,
and sent it to some rosy lass. What,
corl.d be more effective as feeler than
this: 'Your eyes are as bright as
diamonds" 1t contains the whole science
of courtship- ---hattery. .--American Analyst.
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Bullets That Hit and Miss.

The question has often been raised
what proportion of balls, exchanged by
hostile armies, will hit their mark and
kill. Difficult rs Y is to solve it exactly,
some app! oximation may be arrived at
from the number of balls-e>t mated at
20, O0G, 00O-which were fired by tn"
Germans in the war of 1S70-7l. The
French army lost in the dead and woun-
ded, about 140.O00 men. According to
this, only one bail out of l43 fired Int its
man, and assuming that on an average
one man out of seven hit was actually
killed, it would seem that only one rifle
ball in sos proved fatal. If it is further
considered that the number of men
wounded and killed by the guns or the
artillery arc included in the a owe csti-
mate, it may safely be said that not over
one rifle ball in thousand fired proved
to be fatal.-Boston Beacon.
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Feeding Corn Stalks.

It is for the interest of every farmer to
practice the most economical method of
feeding the coarser portions of his fodder
material. Experiments carefully con-
Quoted at the various experiment stations
90 to show ti:at with the best of timothy
and clover hay, under favorable condi-
tions, only about onc-h half of the nutritive
constituents are digested, and when
there is waste in the line of consump-
ton, the loss becomes still greater so far
as animal nutrition is concerned. Take
the case of corn fodder: if the stalks are
large there is very natural and strong
tendency for animals to consume only
the leaves, and a small portion of the top
of the stalk, which leaves large amount
to be cast out with the manure or en-
ployed as bedding.
Farmers can hardly afford to grow
crops to be converted into manure in that
manner, Notwithstanding the Importance
of having plenty ofmanure. 1t is some
times the case, that because of scanty
supply it becomes important to farmer
to secure tbs consumption of all the
coarser products of the farm, even if they
are of poorer quality. TO accomplish
this most successfully requires the exer-
else of little additional labor in the
shape of cutting the fodder, and the use
of a by-fodder in the line of meal, bran,
oil cake, or middlings.
With the present improved Implements
for cutting fodder, in the shape of ensil-
age cutters, even by hand power, it is
not difficult matter to cut as required
the amount of corn fodder usually found
upon average farms, and this, moistened
little with water, and given liberal
sprinkling with meal or wheat mid
dlings, will all be consumed, and serve
as good q purpose as the best hay.
If hand cutting is Objectionable, this
can be accomplished by horse power, and
the entire job be done at once, including
any other coarse fodder, such as straw
or swale grass. First quality corn fod-
der if cut will be consumed even without
any meal, but it is advantageous some
times to make a change from even the
best of hay on to some other food, and
then corn stalks come into play to good
purpose.
If steaming of fodder is to be prac-
tised, as is sometimes the case, then cut
ting becomes an absolute necessity; but,
after repeated experiments in that line
by some of the best farmers of the coun-
try, it has been abandoned, and it
is believed that no advantage is gained
sufficient to warrant the increased addi-
tional expenditure.
1t is a matter of policy with most
farmers, especially if they desire to make
both ends meet, to practise those methods
which experience teaches are the most
economical, taking into account result
ing returns.-NeU York Observer.
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Recipes.

APPLE DUMPLING.-Oneq quart of flour,
one tablespoonful of lard, two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder wet with milk,
roll out an inch thick and place on it
eight apples sliced thin; put in pudding
bag and boil one hour.
GRATED CHEESE. cheese gets
too dry for the table, CRATE very fine,
and mix enough butter with it to make
a smooth, compact mass, adding a
little made mustard. When thoroughly
blended, press it into small jars, to be
kept for condiment for meats or on bread
and butter.
BUNs.-One-half yeast gem dissolved
in little warm water, one pint of warm
milk, salt to taste. make sponge and
lat it rise; then add one cup of sugar.
two beaten eggs, cup of butter well
worked into the dough, adding more
-four; let it rise. Roll oat, butter it,
and cut into biscuits; fold them over,
place in tins not too close, let them rise
again for short time and bake.
CHEESE ToAsT.-Toast some slices of
bread to delicate brown, butter them,
and cover for few minutes, to steam a
little. Shave some cheese very thin,
place it in saucepan; add for teacup-
full of cheese, two tablespoonfuls butter,
sprinkle very little mustard over it,
and cook carefully until the cheese is
melted and the whole is smooth. Spread
this preparation on the toast and serve it
hot.
FRIED FRESH FIsH.-If the fish are
small, after carefully cleaning, wipe
them dry and dip in beaten egg and
then in -four or Indian meal: drop them
into very hot fat and Try like dough-
nuts. They are better cooked thus than
when fried in pan, as in this way there
is no liability OF their sticking fast or
scorchiug. Large fish can be fried III
the same way, but they should be cut
before cooking into pieces convenient
for serving.
BAKED APPLE PUDDING.-Take four
tart apples, sliced or chopped, put them
in a wcll-buttered pudding dish, make Il
batter with pint of sweet milk, pint
of flour, a pinch of salt, one tcaSpoonful
of baking powder and two wcll-beaten
eggs; pour over the apples and bake.
Sauce-a half pint of water, let it boil;
add nice lump of butter, little salt,
half cup of sugar. little wet corn
starch to thicken it like cream, n little
yellow rind OF lemon and some Of the
juice; boil all together and serve.
CoRNsTARCH PIE.-Put one pint OF
sweet milk on the stove, and when boil
ing hot stir into it the yolks of two
eggs and one tablespoonful cornstarch;
after having stirred them smoothly into Il
little cold milk, stir briskly; when it has
boiled remove from the fire, add one
hcaping tablespoonful white sugar and
one tcaspoonful lemon extract. Stir
well, and then pour this custard into
baked piccrust. Beat the two whites
to stiff froth and add two hcaping table;
sroonfuls white sugar; spread over the
pics, put in the over and brown the
frosting dclicatcly. Set away to cool;
the colder it is the nicer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
Sour Apples Bad for Hogs.

When hogs are fed with corn in the
car they should not be kept where they
can get sour apples. They will not eat
many, but what they do take will make
their mouths tender, so that the corn will
prove too hard for them to chew. The
only way that apples and corn can be
fed to hogs is by thorough cooking, Civ
ing the corn enough time to become
heated through. Then when cooled it
will be more easily digested and the ap.
pies will give the mass greater bulk, and
thus keep the stomach in condition for
working.
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Family stoek Ftan1 Bone 3.
fthe family SIS small; tie bones may ba|
kept for week, or until sufficient have
accumulated, by baking them thoroughly
after the meat is removed; all bits of
gristle, fag ends of steak (well rinscd in
boiling water if smoky from broiling)
and chicken bones or giblcts help the
stock. Break the bones as small as you
can, small machine comes for the pur.
pose, but hatchet and block of wood
will answer. Cover the bones with
water, and teaspoonful of salt to each
two quarts, and let them stew from six
to eight hours. If the bones have yielded
all their nutritive qualities. they will look
dry and chalky; if they are still, after
long cooking, semi.opaque and greasy,
they are not completely exhausted; stew
still longer.
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Wooden Handles,

The wooden part of tools, such a. the
stock of planes and hand cI of chi>e!s,
arc often made to have u nice appearance
by French polishing; but this adds moth
ing to their durability. A mucl better
plan is to let them soak in linsccd oil for
week, and rub with n new cloth 70" Il
few minutes every day for week or %.
This produces beautiful surface. ard III
the same time exerts solidifying Il ID
preserving action on the wood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-14
How Many Eggs from a Hen?

Mr.. Sidonie Gond, of Queens county,
New York, in answer to a question in the
american Agriculturist how many eggs
could be expected from one hen, says in
that publication: II read in a work sent
to me from Paris, that a hen has six hum
dred eggs. OF these, the first year she
lays twenty, the second one hundred and
thirty, the third one hundred and thirty
five, the fourth one hundred and four
teen, the fifth and succeeding years gradu-
ally diminishing until the ninth year,
when she lays only ten. In 1910 Comte
de Lastcrri had Normandie hen which
laid two hundred and sixty eggs that
year."
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Bot Flies.

Mr.. W. Fisher, Hancock Co., Me-,
desires information about the bot fly,
which lays it eggs on the legs of horses,
and whether the fly seen at the jaws of
horses is the same2 There are several
species of bot or CAD flies, the larvae of
which live in the stomachs of horses.
The most common of these lays its eggs
on the hairs of the tore legs, breast or
shoulder of the animals, which, when
they lick themselves, extract and thus
swallow the embryo Larvae. Another
species selects the long hairs on the un-
der side of the jaws of horses for depos-
iting its eggs. The young larvae of these
drop into the feed and are thus carried
into the animals stomach. The larv;p of
both remain and grow all winter in the
stomach, where they attach themselves
to its inner coat by means of the sharp
hooks on their heads. In spring when
they have reached maturity, they relin-
quish their hold, and pass out through
the intestincs. Thus liberated they dig
into the soil and become trnsformed into
perfect bot flies. In horses which are
otherwise in healthy condition, bots do
rarely any harm. So far no specific
remedy has been found. Their outer
coat is so hard that it resists the action
of the strongest acids as we'll as alkalis,
and any substance powerful enough to
take effect upon it would also destroy
the stomach of the animal. Toward
spring purgatives may assist the expul-
sion of the bots, and in cases of much
irritation, mucilagenous drinks apd ano-
dynes may be given to quiet them. AS
q preventative, all the long hairs beneath
the horses jaw, fore legs, chest and
shoulder should be cut off, and as an
additional precaution, oil should be
rubbed over these parts once day while
the fly is active, during the summer, to
prevent the flies eggs from adhcring to
the hairs of the ninals.-American
Agriculturist.
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,istcrn the better and cheaper it is. If

cistcrn the better and cheaper it is. If
the soil is close and compact, the cement
may be laid directly upon it, and no
brick-ining is required. TO do this, a
large fiat stone is beddcd in cement at
the bottom. for the workman to stand
upon, and for a rest for the pump. The
cement is made of water.lime, one part,
and clean, sharp sand, three parts, mixed
dry, first, and wcttcd up in small guam
titles as required, and can be used before
it sets hard. The cement is laid about
an inch thick. When the bottom is COW
cred layer is put in around the wall
about foot high, and, as it sets very
quickly, as soon as one strip is laid
another may be put on above it. until the
whole is completed. In digging.
shoulder of a foot in width is made on the
top of the firm subsoil eighteen inches,
to rest the beams upon. This is also
covered with cement, and the beams are
laid on and the spaces between them on
the shoulder are filled in with stone, or
brick, and cement, to the upper level,
upon which the floor rests. A strong
floor of four-inch plank, doubled, with
the joints broken, is laid upon the beams
and covered with coat of the cement,
to exclude surface water; and this floor
is then covered with earth and soddcd
over, or a platform is built over it
to stand upon. A manhole should be
made in the cover, large enough for a
person to 60 down when it is necessary
to clean out the cistern, and this is
brought up little above the platform,
and fitted with tight cover, kept locked
to avoid danger of children falling in
american Agriculturist.
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Authorities on "Apple-Scale."

In a paper read by A. NJ. Hatch, of
Wisconsin, on "Apple Scale" before the
American Pathological Society, he ex-
planned that apple scale is caused by fun
gus that also attacks the leaves. Where it
attacked the leaves it caused them to drop,
weakened the trees and led to winter
killing. Like other fungi it thrives bes'
in warm, wet weather, and therefore
summer of drought is unfavorable to its
development, and to this extent a bless
ing. Crab apples are especially liable to
the disease in its leaf form. In reference
to prevention and cure, this disease be-
longed to the same family of fungi the
Peronosporas) that causes one kind of
grape rot, and that is too decp-rooted to
be prevented by outside applications.
He advised discarding such varieties as
are most liable to its attacks. Some
varieties of apples develop a waxy secre-
ton upon the fruit and leaves, and he
finds that such varieties are less liable to
contract the disease.
E. S. Goff, New York, said that he
had tried sulphate of soda for this dis
ease with good results. The operation
was not expensive. His trial of the sui
phate of copper, as recommended by the
Department of Agriculture, resulted in
destroying most of the leaves in three
applications.
q. W. Campbell, of Ohio, who had
used the sulphate of copper for grapes,
said that he made it much weaker than
the departments recipe, as he suspected
that to be too powerful. York
WorI
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How to Make aGood Cistern.

The surface soil is removed to depth
of eighteen inches to exclude frost in
winter and heat in summer. The exca-
vation is made in the shape of an egg,
with the upper-third cut off. 1t should
be eight to ten feet deep, and seven to
ten feet in diameter. The deeper the
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Gazette,
Unchanged.

In the merry days of boyhood
Of mischief he was full,
And at the teachers faces made
Behind their back at school.
He's now a portrait painter
Noted for his skill.
And to his predictions true
Is making faces still.
Boston Courier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-14

Notifications are often more painful
than calamities.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-14

They have come to C halt, set the box
down on it's end and piled loose rocks
around it to keep it in place, and then
sneak off the way they came like couple
of cowardly coyotes, which they closely
resemble.
These two worthless belong to that dis
reputable class known in the West
as "caim jumpers" They haze been
sent out by some covetous spcculator,
who wants the earth and who sticks at
nothing to get it, or at least large slice
of it. He has learned in some way Of
this promising prospect, and has en-
gagged those wretches to post q notice
thereon claiming the property. There
will be q fierce dispute over it now. The
matter will be brought into the courts
and will probably be settled some time
in the next decade 1t will be conflict
of the fr:endlcss and pcnniless against
the rich and influential. Might, and not
right, generally wins in such cases. not
through any fault Of those who admin
lister the law, but because of the poverty
of the rghtful owner and the law itself.
Such is the real life of Il gold hunter.
except in few cases. After years of
exhausting toll, and just when his efforts
arc about to be crowned with success,
others step in and steal the fruits OF his
labors, or by trickery and fraud reap the
harvest which he has sown. Those who
so wrong him are highly honored and
respected in the communities where they
reside, while he who first planted the
standard of civilization in the Western
wids, and won vast empire from the
wilderness, steals into IN unknown
graYe.---NeW York World.